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GOP empire staggers on

Notice the price of gasoline lately? Isn't it great that we have secured Iraq's oil? And as Congress signs off on yet another huge supplementary grant to supposedly protect U.S. interests in the Middle East, our president pathetically begs his Saudi buddies for a price break. As the fall of Rome showed, imperialism never pays. 0

April 28, 2005

Bush squelched embarrassing report

Last October, just weeks before the presidential election, I wrote a column stating that the acting director of the CIA was suppressing a report to Congress that was potentially embarrassing to President Bush's campaign. The report had been completed by the CIA's own independent inspector general four months before the election, yet the agency rebuffed Congress' request that it… 0

April 8, 2005

The myth of al-Qaida's vast power

Is it conceivable that al-Qaida, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist? To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical, especially in the context of the U.S. media's supine acceptance of administration claims relating to national security. Yet a brilliant new BBC… 0

January 17, 2005

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